JUST SEARCH WJXT IN THE APP STORE ON YOUR APPLE OR ANDROID DEVICE. WE ARE HEARING TONIGHT FROM THE FAMILY OF AN ELDERLY WOMAN WHO DIED VIOLENTLY IN A NORTHWEST JACKSONVILLE CHURCH PARKING LOT. TEENS WHO WERE IN A SUV, POLICE SAY, WHO HIT HER FLED THE SCENE. THEY SAY THE DRIVER WAS THIS 15-YEAR-OLD KEITH HEARTLY WHO WENT OVER A CURB AND SIDEWALK AT ZION HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH AND PLOWED UNTIL 78-YEAR-OLD MAY'S VEHICLE. TOM, INVESTIGATORS SAY WHEN THESE TEENS ESSENTIALLY T-BONED HER CAR KILLING HER THEY DIDN'T GET OUT TO GET INSIDE AND TRY AND HER HELP OUT. INSTEAD INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY RAN OFF. FAMILY MEMBERS OF A 78-YEAR-OLD NORTHWEST JIM GRANDMOTHER ARE STUNNED BY HER DEATH IN THIS CHURCH PARKING LOT. STILL SOMETHING THAT WE JUST REALLY TRYING TO PROCESS RIGHT NOW. IT IS STILL A SHOCK. WE DON'T -- YOU KNOW, BEEN SO BUSY WITH EVERYTHING ELSE, WE HAVEN'T SETTLED IN. MAVIS TUTSSON WAS STOPPED WHEN A DODGE DURANGO WITH THREE TEENS HOPPED A CURB AND SLAMMED INTO HER DRIVER'S SIDE KILLING THE WOMAN. THE PEOPLE IN THE SUFER JUMPED SUV JUMPED OUTAND RAN OFF, POLICE SAY. IT IS A LOT TO TAKE IN. I SPENT THE MOST TIME WITH HER, CAME HERE TO CHECK ON HER, TAKE HER TRASH OUT EVERY WEEK. IT'S JUST A LOT TO TAKE IN. SHE'S A LIFE OF THE PARTY. SHE IS ONE THAT KNOWS EVERYBODY ALWAYS, TAKING CARE OF EVERYBODY ALWAYS. LATE THIS AFTERNOON, POLICE ARRESTED KEITH LAMAR HARTLY. NOW THE FAMILY IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE SUDDEN DEATH OF THIS BELOVED GRANDMOTHER. WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, SHE WAS WHERE SHE NEEDED TO BE AT THAT POINT IN TIME. ALL I CAN SAY IS IT WAS THE HANDS OF GOD. IT WAS A TRAGEDY THE WAY IT HAPPENED, BUT GOD'S WILL WILL BE DONE. IT WAS JUST HER TIME TO LEAVE. SAD THE WAY SHE LEFT. AND THE TEENAGE SUSPECT BEING CHARGED WITH TWO FELONIES, ONE IS LEAVING THE SCENE OF A FATE AT THAT TIME ACCIDENT AS WELL AS DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE WHERE A DEATH WAS INVOLVED IN A CRASH. LIVE TONIGHT, SCOTT JOHNSON, CHANNEL 4 THE LOCAL STATION. SCOTT, WHAT'S THE FAMILY SAYING ABOUT FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS? THEY SAY THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MAKE THEM YET. ALL FRESH FOR THEM, TOM. THEY ACTIVELY WERE PLANNING FUNERAL TONIGHT WHEN WE WERE THERE BUT SO FAR NO DATE OR TIME HAS BEEN SET. TOM.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

After a 78-year-old woman was killed in a crash in a Westside church parking lot Tuesday afternoon, police have charged a 15-year-old boy with leaving the scene of an accident involving a death.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office identified the victim as Mavis Tutson, who police say died after a speeding SUV driven by Keith Hartley failed to negotiate a curve on Edgewood Avenue West, went over a curb and sidewalk into the parking lot of the Zion Hope Baptist Church. There the SUV struck Tutson's stopped vehicle.

Police say Hartley (pictured in JSO booking photo, right) and at least one other teen got out after the crash and ran.

Hartley and a second teenager were apprehended and taken to UF Health Jacksonville with non-life-threatening injuries.

In addition to the first-degree felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident, Harley was also charged with driving without a license.

Tutson's family spoke Wednesday afternoon to Channel 4. Tutson's grandson said that he and his family are stunned at what happened to their grandmother.

"It's really something we're trying to process right now, been so busy haven't had a chance to process this," said Nathan Tatham. "She's life of the party, knows everybody. Take care of everybody, everybody knows Miss Mavis."

"It's a shock, a lot to take in. I spent the most time with her, come here, check on her," said Justin Tatham. "Take her trash out every week, it's just a lot to take in."

Tutson's family is still trying to understand the sudden death of their beloved grandmother.

"We're trying to make sense of it all but to be honest, she was where she needed to be at that point," Tutson's cousin, Thurman Tutson. "All I can see is hand of God. It was tragedy, but God's will will be done. It was just her time to leave. It was just sad the way she left."

Harley was booked into the juvenile detention center.

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